svn commit: r437215 - in head/graphics: gbm libEGL libGL libglapi

[Johannes M Dieterich]

On 2017-03-30 15:23, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 01:57:15PM -0400, Johannes M Dieterich wrote:
>> OK, to be very blunt: the current HEAD is just bad for accelerated
>> OpenGL. Nothing newer than Ivybridge is supported unless you go with 
>> the
>> NVIDIA BLOB (which I have zero experience with). OpenCL is even more
>> horrible: clover is a joke (I am actually using it for work on 
>> carrizo)
>> and you'll be hard pressed to find any HW around that would be able to
>> use with it unless you are on drm-next.
> 
> Hearing that you're doing OpenCL stuff on AMD APU is a big thing and a
> light of hope for me.  I recently got that HP laptop on Richland and I
> want to play Quake 2 and some OpenCL workloads on it as well.  I would
> be watching for things to improve in the area.  Speaking of which, did
> you have a chance to look at the PR I've filed last year:
> 
> 	https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214204
I am now looking, thanks for filing! :-)

I can't say I have these problems. I'll have a closer look tonight. I 
fear the instructions are badly outdated in the wiki and at the moment, 
I can only recommend drm-next+Mesa 17 for this purpose...

Also: thanks for radeontop, even though using that crashes X11 on the 
Carrizo for me (I didn't expect anything else) w/ Mesa 17, drm-next, ...

Johannes